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Gulick, Anne W.

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Declarative moments: Literature, law and transatlantic postcolonialism, 1776--1996.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Declarative moments: Literature, law and transatlantic postcolonialism, 1776--1996./
Author:	Gulick, Anne W.
Description:	305 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-08, Section: A, page: 3015.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-08A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3371378
ISBN:	9781109335507

Declarative moments: Literature, law and transatlantic postcolonialism, 1776--1996.
Gulick, Anne W.

Declarative moments: Literature, law and transatlantic postcolonialism, 1776--1996. - 305 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-08, Section: A, page: 3015.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2008.

"Declarative Moments" is structured around three interconnected arguments. First, I contend that the declaration as a distinct form of literary and extraliterary expression. The declarative text, I propose, does the performative work of bringing into existence through language a novel political identity---such as a self, a nation, or a diasporic collectivity---while at the same time positing the authority to undertake such a creative act in the first place. This broad mode of aesthetic expression encompasses works from a wide variety of genres, including the manifesto, the constitution, the declaration of national independence, the surrealist poem, the novel of decolonization, and postcolonial essay of cultural criticism. Second, I trace a literary genealogy of transatlantic postcolonialism, plotted through a series of "declarative moments" in which radical political transformations in the Atlantic world coincide with periods of intensely experimental literary production among African and Caribbean writers. I examine literary texts that present a formal and ethical challenge to the prominent genres of North Atlantic legal discourse---specifically constitutions and declarations---both at the level of content and at the level of form. Third, I argue that the transatlantic postcolonial declaration makes use of powerful, increasingly globalizing languages of human rights and global justice that play such a prominent role in international law (and, recently, national constitutions as well) while at the same time putting forth an alternative postcolonial ethics of authorship, representation and political belonging in a largely decolonized, but hardly postcolonial, world.

ISBN: 9781109335507Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

Declarative moments: Literature, law and transatlantic postcolonialism, 1776--1996.
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520 $a "Declarative Moments" is structured around three interconnected arguments. First, I contend that the declaration as a distinct form of literary and extraliterary expression. The declarative text, I propose, does the performative work of bringing into existence through language a novel political identity---such as a self, a nation, or a diasporic collectivity---while at the same time positing the authority to undertake such a creative act in the first place. This broad mode of aesthetic expression encompasses works from a wide variety of genres, including the manifesto, the constitution, the declaration of national independence, the surrealist poem, the novel of decolonization, and postcolonial essay of cultural criticism. Second, I trace a literary genealogy of transatlantic postcolonialism, plotted through a series of "declarative moments" in which radical political transformations in the Atlantic world coincide with periods of intensely experimental literary production among African and Caribbean writers. I examine literary texts that present a formal and ethical challenge to the prominent genres of North Atlantic legal discourse---specifically constitutions and declarations---both at the level of content and at the level of form. Third, I argue that the transatlantic postcolonial declaration makes use of powerful, increasingly globalizing languages of human rights and global justice that play such a prominent role in international law (and, recently, national constitutions as well) while at the same time putting forth an alternative postcolonial ethics of authorship, representation and political belonging in a largely decolonized, but hardly postcolonial, world.
520 $a "Declarative Moments" is primarily concerned with late twentieth century Caribbean and African appropriations of the declaration. However, it is my sense that the importance of the declarative form to these projects is best understood in relation to a much earlier moment in the history of transatlantic colonialism. Thus my first two chapters lay out a non-chronological genealogy of the juridico-political declaration in the modern Atlantic world. The founding declarative texts of the Black Republic of Haiti make manifest the paradoxes of slavery and racial exploitation that haunt, but do not explicitly appear in, other touchstone revolutionary documents such as the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, the U.S. Constitution, and---much later---the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In my remaining three chapters, I explore how literary texts from Africa and its diaspora subvert and rework the declarative form in the mid- and late twentieth century. The modernist manifesto, for example, serves as a pivotal genre of engagement and appropriation for black internationalist figures such as Aime Cesaire and C.L.R. James. The novel of decolonization, as exemplified by Ngugi wa Thiong'o's 1967 A Grain of Wheat, is an attempt to perform the kind of emancipatory postcolonial public speech that it also thematizes in its plot. And in the 1990s, prose essays by writers such as Ngugi and Edouard Glissant probe the role of linguistic difference and aesthetic expression within a discourse of globalization and universal human rights. If we have come to understand the Black Atlantic as a terrain of conversation, contestation and (mis)translation among writers on multiple shores, this dissertation argues that it is time also to consider, from a literary perspective, how these writers are in productive conversation with law and its genres in the mid- and late twentieth century.
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